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Opisthokonta vs Opisthokont - What's the difference?

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Opisthokont is a related term of opisthokonta.


Opisthokonta is often a misspelling of opisthokont.


Opisthokonta has no English definition.

As a noun opisthokont is

any of very many eukaryotes whose flagellate cells propel themselves with a single posterior flagellum.

opisthokonta

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Opisthokonta has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'opisthokonta':

opisthosoma, opisthokont, oppositionist

opisthokont

Noun

(en noun)
  • (biology) Any of very many eukaryotes whose flagellate cells propel themselves with a single posterior flagellum.
  • * 2002 : Michael Breitenbach, Reto Crameri, and Samuel B. Lehrer, Fungal Allergy and Pathogenicity , p211] ([http://www.karger.com/ Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers; ISBN 380557391X (10), ISBN 978-3805573917 (13))
  • Based on a single posterior flagellum (opisthokont ), flattened, nondiscoid mitochondrial cristae, a chitinous exoskeleton, storage of glycogen instead of starch, lack of chloroplasts, and the code UGA for tryptophan, not chain termination, in their mitochondria, Cavalier-Smith [54] suggests a common origin of the true fungi with animalia and choanoflagellate protozoa (fig. 1).
  • * 2004 : Joel Cracraft & Michael J. Donoghue, Assembling the Tree of Life , p68] ([http://www.oup.com/us/ Oxford University Press (USA); ISBN 0195172345 (10), ISBN 978-0195172348 (13))
  • However, these characters are only sporadically found among the various opisthokont allies (described above).
  • * 2006 : Laura Katz Olson & Debashish Bhattacharya, Genomics and Evolution of Microbial Eukaryotes , p13] ([http://www.oup.co.uk/ Oxford University Press; ISBN 0198569742 (10), ISBN 978-0198569749 (13))
  • Although the group embraces taxa that are diverse in morphology and life history, cells of undisputed opisthokonts' have a single emergent flagellum which projects behind the cells while they swim. This is treated as defining the ' opisthokont ancestry.